Full Description
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Arts-Based Educational Research offers a wide-angle view of a dynamic scholarly field where the arts are central to educational knowledge creation, exchange and reach. With contributions from over seventy scholars across twelve countries, the handbook showcases arts-based research in diverse educational, cultural and social contexts. Artistic modalities - including drama, music, poetry, photovoice, visual artmaking and digital media - are used to reconfigure foundational research assumptions and foster inclusive, participatory approaches to knowledge-making. Structured around five thematic sections - The Creative Educator, Artistic Identities, Artscaping Community, Creative Advocacy and Artful Leadership - each introduced by a scholarly framing chapter and paired with a practical toolkit, the handbook integrates conceptual depth with usable strategies. It engages with pressing issues including climate justice, healthcare, feminist leadership, Indigenous engagement and youth empowerment. Designed for researchers, educators, students and community members, the handbook invites creative, critical and collaborative engagement with arts-integrated inquiry.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Biographies
Acknowledgements
1. Mapping The Bloomsbury Handbook of Arts-Based Educational Research, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay, Claudia Mitchell, Rebecca Berkley, Adam Hart
2. Framing arts-based educational research: Conceptual foundations and evaluative guidance for originality, significance and rigour, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay, Claudia Mitchell, Rebecca Berkley, Adam Hart
Section 1: The creative educator
3. Being a creative educator: Integrating arts-based educational research in pedagogical enquiry and teacher education, Rebecca Berkley
4. 'When we change our thoughts, then the world around us changes': The role of arts-based methods and living educational theories in knowledge generation, Karen Rut Gísladóttir, Edda Óskarsdóttir, Ívar Rafn Jónsson and Ásta Möller Sívertsen
5. Gaia's spirit: Using the arts to promote climate change awareness in initial teacher education, Geoff Taggart, Jo Anna Reed Johnson and Sikhulile Msezane
6. Disrupting pedagogies for inclusivity in art teacher education, Suzy Tutchell and Melanie Jay
7. Song of myself: Where the lived experience of chronic pain finds a voice within the arts to educate in a clinical context, Fiona Talkington, Fiona Hamilton, Nigel Gibbons, Blair H. Smith and Lesley A. Colvin
8. Equipping the creative educator: Practical tools for artful investigation and fostering inclusive and transformative educational environments, Rebecca Berkley, Karen Rut Gísladóttir, Edda Óskarsdóttir, Ívar Rafn Jónsson, Ásta Möller Sívertsen, Fiona Talkington, Fiona Hamilton, Nigel Gibbons, Blair H. Smith, Lesley A. Colvin, Suzy Tutchell, Melanie Jay
Section 2: Artistic identities
9. Artistic identity assemblages: Arts-based educational research practices as performative spaces for relations, entanglements and becomings, Daisy Pillay
10. Becoming academic differently (BAD): Creating portraits of posthu/wo/man becoming through arts-based inquiry, Marguerite Müller, Petro du Preez and Daisy Pillay
11. The multisensorial, embodied self: Using arts-based research to explore our artistic identities in educational practice, Tamar Meskin, Tanya van der Walt, Jenni Lauwrens and Siddharthiya Pillay
12. Harmonizing identities: The symphony of artistry and pedagogy in education, Nalini Moodley, Jai P. Naidoo and Chatradari Devroop
13. Defining, redefining and de-defining self: Teacher educators reimagining embodied, inclusive and relational teaching through arts-based educational research, Victoria Ekpo, Mindy Carter, Jen Hinkkala, Michael Flannery and Una McCabe
14. Tools for nurturing creative experiments with self as an artist/ic in research, Daisy Pillay, Marguerite Müller, Petro du Preez, Tamar Meskin, Tanya van der Walt, Jenni Lauwrens, Siddharthiya Pillay, Nalini Moodley, Jai P. Naidoo, Chatradari 'Chats' Devroop
Section 3: Artscaping community
15. 'From the ground up' appoaches to arts-based social research, Claudia Mitchell
16. Re-imagining cellphilming methodology in disrupting gender norms: Agency through artmaking, Lisa J. Starr, Jen Thompson, Grace Skahan, Ntomboxolo Yamile and Naydene de Lange
17. Zines as a catalyst for dialogue in community settings, Emily Booker, Emilee Bews, Margaret Mackenzie, Sam Nepton, Julia Ussak and Haily May Ussak
18. Creating lasting impressions in ephemeral spaces: Curating in community-focused arts-based research, Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, Bori Godley, Miranda D'Amico, Myriam Denov, Warren Linds, Déborah Maia de Lima and Claudia Mitchell
19. Artmaking and policymaking in educational change, Pamela Lamb, Lisa Wiebesiek, Relebohile Moletsane and Milka Nyariro
20. Harnessing arts-based approaches for community engagement, Claudia Mitchell, Lisa J. Starr, Jen Thompson, Grace Skahan, Ntomboxolo Yamile, Naydene de Lange, Emily Booker, Emilee Bews, Margaret Mackenzie, Sam Nepton, Julia Ussak, Haily May Ussak, Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, Bori Godley, Miranda D'Amico, Myriam Denov, Warren Linds, Déborah Maia de Lima, Pamela Lamb, Lisa Wiebesiek, Relebohile Moletsane, Milka Nyariro
Section 4: Creative advocacy
21. Creative advocacy: Arts-based pathways to inclusion, representation and transformation, Adam Hart
22. Knowing affectively: Poetry, lyrics and the voices of marginalized young people, Adrian Schoone and Frances Howard
23. 'A picture of who? me? them? us? you? everybody?': Reflecting on arts-based research with neurodivergent young people, Tracy Hayes, Jane Dudman and Adam Hart
24. Storytelling as a catalyst for curriculum decolonization, Lucy Panesar, Ekene Okobi and Mwangi Wanjiru
25. Growing seeds of sustainability through arts-based educational interventions, Katie Parsons, Ria Dunkley, Florence Halstead and Aireen Grace Andal
26. From expression to action: A toolkit of Arts-Based pathways for advocacy, Adam Hart, Adrian Schoone, Frances Howard, Tracy Hayes, Jane Dudman, Ekene Okobi, Katie Parsons, Ria Dunkley, Florence Halstead, Aireen Grace Andal
Section 5: Artful leadership
27. Animating educational change through artful leadership research, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan
28. Creative wayfinding as arts-based method: Embodying a transformative artful leadership praxis, Anna S. CohenMiller, Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus and Nupur Samuel
29. Using our bodies to disrupt patriarchal educational systems: Navigating feminist leadership in a man's world, Emily J. Klein, Monica Taylor and Necole Jadick
30. Catalysing change through the arts: Examining arts-informed experiences in partnership with educational leaders, Michelle Searle, Katrina Carbone, Amanda Cooper and Tiina Kukkonen
31. Artistic insights: Arts-based knowing and educational leadership and management practice, Inbanathan Naicker, Ashkelon Govender and Rashida Be Be Khan
32. Tools for animating educational change through artful leadership research, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Anna S. CohenMiller, Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus, Nupur Samuel, Emily J. Klein, Monica Taylor, Necole Jadick, Katrina Carbone, Michelle Searle, Inbanathan Naicker, Ashkelon Govender, Rashida Be Be Khan
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